Students feel the varsity is stimulating the 'copy-paste' culture among the students by not abiding the UGC policies.
Mumbai University
In May this year, the University Grants Commission (UGC) had sent a notice to the University of Mumbai (MU) regarding detection and prevention of plagiarism manual. This letter was in response to a complaint sent by a PhD student of the varsity, citing the problems students are facing when it comes to writing and preserving their thesis or dissertation. However, as per Shodhganga – a digital repository of the thesis by UGC – from the year 2010-18, MU has uploaded only 122 total thesis meanwhile Savitribai Phule Pune University in the same period has uploaded 1,243 thesis.
Students feel the varsity is stimulating the 'copy-paste' culture among the students by not abiding the UGC policies.
"Technically, if you upload a thesis on Shodhganga, if it has any plagiarized substance in it, it will draw a red line on it which will refrain from completing the uploading process," a senior professor and a PhD holder explained. She continued, "However since this isn't existing, students will be free to copy and paste just for the sake of completing their thesis or dissertation."
UGC's anti-plagiarism policy allows up to 10 per cent content similarity or reference from elsewhere in their thesis. Anything exceeding it will be asked to withdraw from the manuscript. "My dissertation must be lying around somewhere and I wouldn't even know if it's being copied by somebody else. In case I need it in the future, nobody will even believe if I had written in because there won't be any authenticity," a student told DNA on the condition of anonymity.
Ravindra Kulkarni, pro-Vice Chancellor of MU while said, "The library and the thesis section at the university have limited manpower and only a couple of anti-plagiarism software. In order to resolve this, the existing Thesis Section is being converted into a department and will be shifted from the Fort campus to Kalina campus." He also said that henceforth every work attached to the thesis and dissertation will be completed with a year.
Online ArchiveA thesis uploaded in Shodhganga, a digital repository, is considered authentic, and students bear a ‘certification of originality’ by University Grants Commission
Mumbai University
In May this year, the University Grants Commission (UGC) had sent a notice to the University of Mumbai (MU) regarding detection and prevention of plagiarism manual. This letter was in response to a complaint sent by a PhD student of the varsity, citing the problems students are facing when it comes to writing and preserving their thesis or dissertation. However, as per Shodhganga – a digital repository of the thesis by UGC – from the year 2010-18, MU has uploaded only 122 total thesis meanwhile Savitribai Phule Pune University in the same period has uploaded 1,243 thesis.
Students feel the varsity is stimulating the 'copy-paste' culture among the students by not abiding the UGC policies.
"Technically, if you upload a thesis on Shodhganga, if it has any plagiarized substance in it, it will draw a red line on it which will refrain from completing the uploading process," a senior professor and a PhD holder explained. She continued, "However since this isn't existing, students will be free to copy and paste just for the sake of completing their thesis or dissertation."
UGC's anti-plagiarism policy allows up to 10 per cent content similarity or reference from elsewhere in their thesis. Anything exceeding it will be asked to withdraw from the manuscript. "My dissertation must be lying around somewhere and I wouldn't even know if it's being copied by somebody else. In case I need it in the future, nobody will even believe if I had written in because there won't be any authenticity," a student told DNA on the condition of anonymity.
Ravindra Kulkarni, pro-Vice Chancellor of MU while said, "The library and the thesis section at the university have limited manpower and only a couple of anti-plagiarism software. In order to resolve this, the existing Thesis Section is being converted into a department and will be shifted from the Fort campus to Kalina campus." He also said that henceforth every work attached to the thesis and dissertation will be completed with a year.
Online ArchiveA thesis uploaded in Shodhganga, a digital repository, is considered authentic, and students bear a ‘certification of originality’ by University Grants Commission
Source: https://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-ugc-notice-to-university-of-mumbai-over-blind-eye-to-plagiarism-woes-2785775 (Accessed on August 29, 2019)
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